President Barack Obama said Friday that his personal experiences with
America's national parks - both as an 11-year-old with his mother and
grandmother and later as a father - have made a conservationist out of
him.
The President was speaking at a conference hosted by the White House
linking conservation with strong local economies through tourism,
outdoor recreation, and healthy lands, waters and wildlife. In connection with the conference, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
announced the National Water Trails System, a new network intended to
increase access to water-based outdoor recreation, encourage community
stewardship of local waterways, and promote tourism that fuels local
economies. Salazar signed a Secretarial Order that establishes national water
trails as a class of national recreational trails under the National
Trails System Act of 1968...more
They've got the land. Now they'll have the water...are Air Trails next?
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